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Friday, July 1, 2016

The Essential Bangalore Home Buyer Handover Checklist - Things to check on before you take possession of your apartment/ villa from the builder - Version II

The regular readers of this blog would have come across, in one of the earlier posts, this list of things to check on before taking full and final possession of one's home from the builder .

I was updating this checklist sometime back for my own use and felt that this is something that all of Bangalore's home buyers can make use of. With that thought I bounced this off with folks at Deccan Herald and lo and behold I see it published on the front page of DH Homes & Interiors today :).

The DH team has done a great job of putting pictures and formatting the list around different sections to make it easier and fun to read.

Do take time to go through. The unedited free text of the article is below
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Villa / Apartment
Interior Readiness and Handover Checklist: Things
to check on BEFORE you take the formal handover of your dream home from the
builder.

In interactions with home buyers one of the topic that frequently
comes up is things that one needs to check before taking handover of the house
from the builder

A thorough check before housewarming helps avoid the Tom &
Jerry show of tracking and chasing down the shadowy builder later. Even if you
succeed in catching Jerry the mess that the rectification creates is enough to
drown the “high” of the new home.

What you will find below is a comprehensive but simple checklist
of things that you need to tick off before you say that conclusive “I do” to
your builder and keep your spirits flying high

Let’s start with the doors, here goes :-

DOORS

Check
for gaps between door frame and wall. Push the frame to see it is anchored
firmly

Check
for hinge fitting, ensure there are screws in each of the screw ports.

Check
door catcher/ stopper for proper functioning

Check
door knobs & locks for smooth closure & functioning.

ALUMINUM/ UPVC DOORS and WINDOWS

Check
Lack of alignment if any. Ensure that the doors open and close easily.

Check
rubber beading for hardening, cracks

Check
if the grills are properly painted

Ensure
that the door/ window frame has drain holes

Check
that the shutters lock properly

Ensure
that the glass is fixed properly and the beading is intact and not coming
off.

WALLS AND CEILING

Check
plastering quality, there should be no uneven-ness. Ensue that there are
no cracks

Check
for excessive dampness in the wall (if any)

Check
false ceiling in bathrooms (if there), ensure that it is properly fixed
with no cracks.

Check
tiling even-ness & grouting. There should be no cement marks on the
tiles

FLOORING

Check
for any cracks or scratches

For
Bathrooms, Utility and Balcony check the floor tilt to ensure correct
water flow into the drain and that there is zero water accumulation
anywhere.

Ensure
that there is no hollowness in the floor. Tap each tile or bounce a ball
on each tile to check for the hollow sound. A hollow sound indicates that
the tile is not set properly & needs to be replaced.

Check
for proper grouting of the tiles/ stone slabs especially in bathrooms

6 comments:

Hi Nandita! you are doing a great job by writing these blogs. Reading your blogs I feel as if you can read my mind. all the questions are answered here.I am in the process of designing my home and still have one question. an interior designer friend from another city told me to look for a carpenter who can do the PVC Sunmica on ply very well. And she suggested I go for it if I get a good carpenter, because this sunmica bends at 90 degrees ad so does not leave any edges. But she said that if the carpenter is not skilled then the sunmica can develop cracks. But my carpenter says it is a low grade material....the PVC sunmica, as it will definitely get a crack in some time. whom do I believe? should I consider the PVC sunmica for my wardrobes? Is it really lower grade than the laminate I would be otherwise using?

PVC is yet not a proven material, it is also not recommended for panels above 4 feet. Some of the readers of this blog have used it for kitchen cabinets and have reported that they have found it to be ok. I have personally not used PVC hence cannot comment.

PS: If you have a question to ask then please note: The Q&A/ Comments interface on this blog below is unable to scale to the number of questions that we have been getting. Hence even if you post a question I am sometimes not able to reply to it due to technology limitations. To do away with this issue we have launched the Q&A module on The Studio website.

Hence if you have a question or if you posted a question earlier and did not get a response then please post it again at https://thestudiobangalore.com/questions-and-answers/ so that I am able to see and answer it

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When I made my own home in Bangalore some 10 years back, came to realize how much goes into making one and the learning that happens along the way & by the end of it one feels so much that could have been done differently ... longing for a chance to do it "better" all over again. Well I took that call and decided to help others make their home. A lot, including founding The Studio has happened during these 10 years, however helping people realize their dream called home continues to be a passion, much more than just a profession.

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